Employing black literary studies as a primary (interdisciplinary) close-reading method, Dr. Hamsa’s scholarship is concerned with the ways in which U.S. American literatures—particularly black writers in the United States—engage the matter(s) of black sentience. This work is concerned with the ways that blackness precedes, and exceeds, its relationship to the category of the human.
Research Interests
- 19th & 20th Century American Literatures, Black Studies-Philosophies and Theories of the Human, Blackwomen’s Literature, Black Religion and/as Literature, Critical & Cultural Theory, Southern Studies
